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  • Last October, he had Mt. Airy's Black Ankle Vineyards participate in the market one Sunday to publicize efforts to change the law.

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  • All that we want to know for the purpose is the _rate_ of the sun's motion; its _direction_ we may consider as given with approximate accuracy by Airy's investigation.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various

  • Adopting, the additional computative burden imposed by it notwithstanding, Schonfeld's modification of Airy's formulæ, he introduced into his equations a fifth unknown quantity expressive of a possible stellar drift in galactic longitude.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various

  • Airy's old friend, Adam Sedgwick, was now very aged and infirm, but his spirit was still vigorous, and he was warm-hearted as ever.

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

  • The history of Airy's life, and especially the history of his life's work, is given in the chapters that follow.

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

  • Respecting the agitation at Cambridge for granting University degrees to women, the following extract from a letter addressed to a young lady who had forwarded a Memorial on the subject for his consideration, and dated Nov. 10th, 1880, contains Airy's views on this matter.

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

  • The following correspondence relating to Airy's retirement from office testifies in a remarkable manner to the estimation in which his services were held, and to the good feeling which subsisted between him and his official superiors.

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

  • Amongst other Papers in this year, Airy's Paper entitled

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

  • To avoid the necessity of frequent reference to this work in the history of Airy's remaining years, it will be convenient to summarize it here.

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

  • Consequent on Airy's proposals in 1866 for the introduction of new physical subjects into the Senate-House Examination and his desire that the large number of questions set in Pure Mathematics, or as he termed it “Useless Algebra,” should be curtailed, there was a smart and interesting correspondence between him and Prof. Cayley, who was the great exponent and advocate of Pure Mathematics at Cambridge.

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

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